Multiple Peruvian polygonal walls display glassy, vitrified surfaces on their joints and outer faces, a phenomenon also ...

Architects who measured the andesite blocks at Pumapunku, Bolivia, found that many of them are perfect replicas of one ...

Part of Samuel’s analysis focuses on the ancient polity of Dʿmt and the archaeological site of Yeha in present-day Tigray. For much of the twentieth century, European scholars explained Yeha’s ...

James Gandon’s neoclassical colossus needed radical repairs after the bombardment of 1922. Now the drum and dome are back ...

Humans are animals that measure things. Call us Homo mensura. We have a compulsion to quantify, and for millennia we’ve been inventing new ways to go about it. For anything you can think of, there’s a ...

An unusual tooth found in a cave offers a rare glimpse into a surprising procedure prehistoric humans might have performed to fix a cavity 59,000 years ago. Researchers uncovered the lower molar of an ...

Bugonia, the new film from director Yorgos Lanthimos, is now available at home, and that’s great news for a few reasons. The most obvious is that the movie is amazing. Emma Stone stars as a CEO who is ...

This deeply researched guide from Fischer, an archaeological field supervisor, explores the history of traditional textile techniques that have largely been forgotten and instructs modern crafters on ...

(THE CONVERSATION) – In the fall of 1971, Sly and the Family Stone’s “There’s a Riot Goin’ On” landed like a quiet revolution. After two years of silence following the band’s mainstream success, fans ...

An international team of paleobiologists, anthropologists and behavioral scientists has found that the process used by modern chimps to select tools for cracking nuts may be similar to how ancient ...